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Saint Etienne is a British band from London, formed in 1990. The band consists of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs.

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists, who once had a fanzine called Caff which had developed into a record label by 1989. They originally planned that Saint Etienne would use a variety of different lead singers, and their 1991 debut album, Foxbase Alpha – influenced by sources such as club culture, 1960s pop, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Dazzle Ships – features several vocalists, including Moira Lambert and Donna Savage. However, after working with Sarah Cracknell on "Nothing Can Stop Us", they decided to make her the permanent vocalist, and she has written or co-written many of the band's songs.

During their career they have released 10 studio albums, 2 soundtrack albums, 9 compilation albums, 2 remix albums, 7 mix albums, 2 video albums, 1 box set, 4 extended plays, 38 singles, and 5 promotional singles.

This song comes from their 2000 album called Sound of Water. It was the 5th of their 10 albums so far with the most one happening in 2021. I don’t see any evidence that they have ever broken through on the US charts.

Bran Van 3000 is a Canadian alternative rock and hip hop collective from Montreal. Formed in in 1996.

They released their 6th & most recent album in 2015 after which it appears they broke up. But they announced in 2022 they were getting back together for a 25th anniversary tour.

This was their first single, it was released in 1997 in Canada where it peaked at number 35. In April of that year, the band released their first album, Glee. The record went gold and at the Juno Awards of 1998, won a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album. They were nominated for Best New Group and "Drinking in L.A." was nominated for Single of the Year.

The song & the album Glee, charted in many countries, but it seems as though they have yet to show any progress here in the states.

Anne McCue is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, video director, and radio host born in Cambelltown, Australia but as of 2007 living in Nashville.

Her first band was based in Sydney and was called Vertigo after the Alfred Hitchcock film.

In 1988 in Melbourne, she answered an ad in the local press, & joined all-female rock band Girl Monstar as lead guitarist. The band had two Number One hits on the Australian Independent Charts and eventually received an ARIA nomination for best independent act.

Since March 2014, she has hosted the radio show "Songs on the Wire", on internet-based "East Nashville Radio" as of 2019, she has been broadcast on low-power FM station WXNA in Nashville

Not only has she produced & released her own music but she has also played guitar on albums by other artists like Michelle Shocked & Robyn Hitchcock.

This song comes from her Koala Motel album. It was her 4th solo & was released in 2006.

Alvarado Street is a north–south thoroughfare in LA. It was named after California governor Juan Bautista Alvarado. It is south of Pico Boulevard and north of Venice Boulevard & runs adjacent to MacArthur Park.

Bob Seger is a singer, songwriter, and musician from Detroit. He turned 78 last May.

Early in his career he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (which contained his first national hit of the same name) in 1969.

By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' & in 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of his best-selling singles and albums.

His catalog consists of 18 studio albums, 2 live albums, 5 compilation albums and more than 60 singles. He has sold over 50 million records and received 7 multi-platinum, 4 Platinum and 2 Gold certifications by the RIAA.

In 1984, he wrote and recorded the power rock ballad "Understanding" for the Teachers movie soundtrack. The movie starred starring Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Ralph Macchio, and Judd Hirsch.

Understanding was released as a single & hit #17. This is the "B-side" to the single & was never included on any album.

The Brooklyn Bridge (also known as The Bridge and as Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge since the 1980s) is a musical group from New York City.

This is another one of those groups that have had tons of different members over the years, but they have been making music together since 1968 & are still at it.

This song comes from album called The Second Brooklyn Bridge. It came out in 1969. There were 10 group members at the time. The rating site All Music gave the album 1 out of 5 stars.

Echo Park is located in east-central region of Los Angeles, to the northwest of Downtown, it is bordered by Silver Lake to the west and Chinatown to the east.

Joseph Arthur is a singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio.

He was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-1990s, and signed to Gabriel's Real World label as the first North American artist on the roster.

Joseph continues to build his reputation by recording his shows live at the soundboard and making them available to concertgoers immediately following the show on recordable media.

He has released multiple albums as a solo artist & many other albums in conjunction with other artists.

This song comes from his 4th solo studio album. The album was released in 2004 & was called Our Shadows Will Remain. The album got a slough of 4 & 5 star reviews but I don’t see any evidence that it helped him on the charts.

That is the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on strings on this song.

Ryan Cabrera is a musician, singer, songwriter from Dallas. He just turned 41 last month.

He attended The University of Texas at Dallas before dropping out to pursue music & joining the band Rubix Groove, which opened for artists like Cheap Trick and Third Eye Blind.

He is married to professional wrestler Alexis Kaufman, better known as Alexa Bliss. They are expecting their 1st young’un later in the year.

During his career he has released 4 studio albums, with the most recent one coming in 2008. This song was a part of the Take It All Away collection released in 2004. It was his 2nd album. The album landed at #8 & included the singles On The Way Down #15, & True #18. It has been certified as a Platinum selling record.

Kenny Chesney is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Knoxville. He turned 55 in March.

He has won 12 Country Music Association Awards (including winning their top Entertainer of the Year honor 4 times) and 11 Academy of Country Music Awards (including four consecutive Entertainer of the Year awards from 2005 to 2008).

During his career he has released 19 studio albums, including 10 consecutive #1’s on the Country Albums chart. 14 of them have been certified gold or higher. His highest-certified albums are No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002), When the Sun Goes Down (2004), and his first Greatest Hits compilation, each certified 4× Platinum.

This song was included on his 2012 album Welcome to the Fishbowl. It was his 14th album, it hit #2 on the top 200 & went to #1 on the Country albums charts. The album has been certified as Platinum. It included the singles, Feel Like A Rock Star with Tim McGraw #11, Come Over #1, & the song linked to here #17.

That is Grace Potter singing harmonies with him.

El Cerrito Place is just north of Hollywood Blvd and the Walk of Fame within walking distance of the famous Graumans Chinese Theater.

Steve Earle is a singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor from Fort Monroe, Virginia, he turned 68 this year.

He began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. He was arrested in 1993 for possession of heroin and in 1994, for cocaine and weapons possession. A judge sentenced him to a year in jail after he admitted possession and failed to appear in court. He was released from jail after serving 60 days of his sentence. He then completed an outpatient drug treatment program at the Cedarwood Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee. As a recovering heroin addict, he has used his experience in his songwriting.

During his career he has released 21 studio albums, including collaborations with the Del McCoury Band and Shawn Colvin. His music covers a wide range of styles, including bluegrass, multiple styles of rock, folk, blues and country. He or his labels have also released 6 live albums and 8 compilation albums.

He has charted several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, Mainstream Rock Airplay, Adult Alternative Airplay charts.

This song comes from his 4th album. It was released in 1990 & called The Hard Way. The album got to #100 on the Top 200. It included the single The Other Kind which got to #37 on the US Mainstream Rock songs chart.

Tracy Lawrence is a country singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was born in Atlanta, Texas, but raised in Foreman, Arkansas.

He won the award for Top New Male Vocalist from The Academy Of Country Music in 1993 & The Vocal Event Of The Year Award along with Tim McGraw & Kenny Chesney in 2007 from The Country Music Association & 2008 from The Academy Of Country Music for the song Find Out Who Your Friends Are.

During his career he has released 14 solo albums & 46 singles including 9 #1 hits. His 1993 album Alibis and 1996's Time Marches On, have each been certified 2× platinum.

This song comes from his album Strong. It was his 8th release & came out in 2004. The album got to #17 on the top 200 & #2 on the Country albums chart. It included the singles "Paint Me a Birmingham" (#4), "It's All How You Look at It" (#35) and "Sawdust on Her Halo" (#48).

Helen St. John is a singer-songwriter, pianist, lyricist and recording artist. I can't find anything that says where she is from.

Her 1st break came as a result of her piano performances on the soundtrack of the motion picture Flashdance, "Love Theme from Flashdance," which resulted in two Grammy nominations: Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Album of the Year.

She was also involved in the making of the soundtracks for Scarface, Superman III and Electric Dreams and two of her solo albums, Power to the Piano and Take Your Passion, were produced by Giorgio Moroder.

This song comes from a 1993 album called Power To The Piano.

Fairfax Avenue is a street in the north central area of Los Angeles. It runs from La Cienega Boulevard in Culver City at its southern end to Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Johnny Winter III was a singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer from Beaumont, Texas. He was found dead in his hotel room two days after his last performance, at the Cahors Blues Festival in France in 2014, he was 70. An official cause of death was never released.

During his career he released 19 studio albums, 9 Live albums, 15 compilations & 25 singles.

Throughout his career, his catalogue was plagued by bootleg albums and unauthorized re-releases of singles from his early pre-Columbia Records days. These records competed with his official releases and some were doctored with later overdubs by other musicians. Royalties were not his primary concern: "I just don't want that bullshit out ... It's just bad music."

This song comes from his 6th studio album. It was called Saints & Sinners & it was released in 1974. The album charted at #42.

The song was written by Van Morrison. Other musicians playing on the song include Rick Derringer on Bass, & guitar, Bobby Caldwell on Drums & Percussion, Edgar Winter Keyboards & Jon Smith on Saxophone.

Buffalo Springfield was formed in Los Angeles in 1966 with Stephen Stills (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Dewey Martin (drums, vocals), Bruce Palmer (bass guitar), Richie Furay (guitar, vocals) and Neil Young (guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals).

The group's name was taken from a brand of steamroller made by the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company.

The band was short lived & released just 3 albums all in the space of 19 months. They also released just 9 singles, but the song linked to here was their only top 40 hit landing at #7.

The legacy of the group in Rock roots is extensive. Stephen Stills went on to form Crosby, Stills & Nash with David Crosby of the Byrds and Graham Nash of the Hollies. Neil Young launched his solo career and later joined Stills in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1969. Richie Furay, along with Jim Messina, went on to form the country-rock band Poco.

Buffalo Springfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

The song was written by Stephen Stills & was included on their 1st album.

Although it is often considered an anti-war song, Stephen Stills was inspired to write the song because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966, a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, the same year Buffalo Springfield had become the house band at the Whisky a Go Go. Local residents and businesses had become annoyed by how crowds of young people going to clubs and music venues along the Strip had caused late-night traffic congestion. In response, they lobbied Los Angeles County to pass local ordinances stopping loitering, and enforced a strict curfew on the Strip after 10 p.m. The young music fans, however, felt the new laws infringed upon their civil rights.

On Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed on the Sunset Strip inviting people to join demonstrations later that day. Several of Los Angeles's rock radio stations also announced a rally outside the Pandora's Box club on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights. That evening, as many as 1,000 young demonstrators, including future celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was handcuffed by police) gathered to protest against the curfew's enforcement. Although the rallies began peacefully, trouble eventually broke out. The unrest continued the next night, and periodically throughout the rest of November and December, forcing some clubs to shut down within weeks. It was against the background of these civil disturbances that Stills recorded "For What It's Worth" on December 5, 1966.

The Red Elvises were founded in LA in 1995 by Igor Yuzov, Oleg Bernov, Zhenya Rock.

Igor and Oleg met during a Russian-American peace walk and subsequently played together in a Russian folk-rock band called Limpopo. The band's third original member, guitarist Zhenya Rock (a.k.a. Kolykhanov), had also emigrated to America and was the lead guitarist of the band until 2004. For the first few months Andrey Baranov was the band's drummer, but within that year, the first American in the band, drummer Avi Sills from Austin,was added to the lineup. They first began as an LA street act at Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade.

They have so far released 14 albums with the most recent one coming in 2017 but they seem to still be around & are heading out on tour in the coming months. This song comes from their 7th album. It was called Shake Your Pelvis & was recorded in 1999 & released in 2000.